NS Harsha, ‘Camel and the tent times’, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 150 cm. © NS Harsha. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of new paintings by NS Harsha. Camel and the tent times e laborate s on the artist’s celebrated, ongoing ‘lamp grid’ series. The paintings all feature diyas – lamps traditionally made from clay that are lit during rituals, prayers, ceremonies , celebrations and during power cuts – with flames and trails of smoke together creating patterns that guide the eye around each canvas. The emerging narratives pivot between aspects of work and rest, the small yet heroic figure of the worker appearing in agricultural or industrial scenarios that springboard into larger philosophical questions.
